UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA

FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE, PLANNING AND SURVEYINGCENTRE OF STUDIES FOR SURVEYING SCIENCE AND GEOMATICS SEMESTER 8 2017/2018UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE SYSTEM FOR MAPPING (GLS696)

CURRENT ISSUE OF UAV

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PREPARED BY: MOHAMAD AKMAL BIN ABDUL RAZAK (2015826928)

SUBMISSION DATE: 23/05/2018

PREPARED FOR: DR. KHAIRUL NIZAM BIN TAHAR

1. Air Space ThreatsThe mainly used of drones may contributes to flown dangerously close to commercialaircraft, violating federal rules about their operation. According to statistic there are morethan 650 pilot have reported seeing unmanned aircraft as of 9 Aug 2015 compared to atotal of 238 such sightings for all of 2014. The bigger problems lead up to how this dronespossible to bring down an airplane. Because drone’s autopilot modes fly according to aprecisely predefined flight, it wouldn’t be overly difficult for a drone operator to position adrone right in the middle of flight path.

2. Vehicles for weapons

Think of any light to medium type of weight weapon and it can probably be attached to adrone. There are already videos of drones with chainsaws, machine guns andflamethrowers attached. A prankster or terrorist could have havoc with even the simplestweapons. Imagine the reaction if a drone hovered above a popular sporting event,sprinkling unknown white powder over the crowd. A stunt like this would cause panicsituations because we don’t know what the substances was.

3. Crowded Skies

The corporate sector, especially the big delivery and service companies, already has bigplans for turning drone technology into new sources of revenue. Amazon has announcedits “Prime Air”, a delivery system it says will eventually allow the company to safely getpackages into customers’ hand in 30 minutes or less using only drones. DHL parcels andGoogle also launched the same things as Amazon in delivery service with autonomousdrone fights to delivers an urgently needed goods to the local community. Experts saysthe major issue for these companies is the current lag time between drone technologiesand official policies about drone usage. In the near future, there will be regulations thatwill prohibit drone flights in cities and crowded areas. Beyond those bans, we will see thegrowth in the drone services industry and drone technologies and it will not stop growing.4. Collisions

There are have been a handful of reports of serious injuries from lightweight dronescolliding into people. But collisions between 50-pound commercial drones could beproved fatal, based on a recent article from Bloomberg that summarized the results ofdrone research involving crash-test dummies. Worst case scenario when operating alarge, multi-rotor aircraft in really close proximity to people and treating it as if it is a toythen its asking for some pretty severe outcomes.

5. The difficulty of enforcing the rules

Authorities are attempting to crack down on drones flying in sensitive area such as nearairports or crowded sporting events. For example, at the sporting events, they set up a34.5-mile radius of “no-drone zone” around the stadium. But the problem is that such no-fly zone is difficult to enforce, Radar has a hard time picking up drones, making it easyfor some random guy in his backyard or in the back of truck to fly a drone into a sensitiveairspace undetected. What will happen if a kids goes out and flies a drone near an airport?Do you prosecute the child, the parents?

6. Drone-based hacking

Drones also open up an array of new avenues for hackers. Not only can drones be hackedin flight, causing them to crash, the craft also can be used for stealing sensitiveinformation from the public. It would not be hard for a drone to hover a 150 feet above apark, broadcast a WiFi signal overhead, and then grab sensitive information from anyoneusing the network.